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Jul.16.2008 - 2:46 pm
“Mixed Authors & Best-Selling Drinks" = Grand Success!
Tosca
What a night! It was so wonderful to meet so many of our local authors who gathered at literary institution Tosca last night for a swell party. I also want to say a big THANK YOU...
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Jun.20.2008 - 4:20 pm
Salman Rushdie says stories have to have "jump," and other things I learned at his City Arts & Lectures appearance
It’s not every evening that you can sit, just four rows in, and listen to one of our great contemporary writers talk candidly about writing, history, politics, and even Scarlett...
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Apr.29.2008 - 6:00 pm
I think I just ran a really long race
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I'm not a racer. I am a runner. I ran around the neighborhood when I was growing up, when we hopped on and off bikes; around the track in high school; and around a reservoir in...
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Apr.24.2008 - 10:59 am
Red Room Panel Update
Thanks to all who joined a packed house to hear this week’s Commonwealth Club panel on Red Room. It was a great evening for writers to meet and discuss their thoughts on...
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The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack
16.Jul.2008
That Neal Pollack is one funny guy.
Jennifer Massoni reviews
The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: The Collected Writings of Neal Pollack
by Neal Pollack
At the risk of absolutely never being nearly an eighth as funny as Neal Pollack is in this anthology, I'll say it straight: Read this book! It won't take long because you won't be...
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Comments from Jennifer

Jul.16.2008 - 2:22 pm
In response to: The Writing Closet
This is hilarious!
I always love seeing where and how writers work. This takes things to a whole new level, however. And seeing that...
Jul.10.2008 - 5:26 pm
In response to: Authors@Google: Meg Waite Clayton
Dynamite Video
What a fantastic reading, Meg. I'm so glad to know about Authors@Google and that you took part--I loved your insights...
Jul.02.2008 - 10:08 am
In response to: Careful, or I just Might Take You Down the Rabbit Hole
Ben saves the day!
Like Carolyn noted as well, I love to know that a successful, prolific novel writer like yourself also doesn't outline...
May.28.2008 - 10:06 am
In response to: MM's Window on the World: Taking the Leap with Jim Morrison
NY Nights
What a great piece of nostalgia this is: for New York in the 60s, for a great young lost icon, for your own new days in...
May.28.2008 - 9:48 am
In response to: I think I just ran a really long race
Thanks, Belle!
That's so sweet of you! I definitely plan on doing this again...maybe I'll go for the half-marathon next time!
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About Jennifer

Journalist and editor Jennifer Massoni has worked at Vanity Fair, where she was the associate editor of Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties, was the senior editor of Gentry magazine for three years, and directed the 2006 launch of CAFE magazine. A...
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Causes Jennifer Massoni Supports

Sunbeam Foundation
Greenpeace 

Jennifer’s Favorite Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Believers, How to Breathe Underwater, Saturday